Hi ! I've a curious thing. I wanted to renew the SSL certificate on my IIS 4.0, as expiration is 19 June 2004... I generated as usualy the C:\NewKeyRq.txt...And curiously, it was exactly the same as the previous year.... What's wrong ? Thanks !...more >>

I've got a Windows Server 2003 setup w/ IIS 6, using SSL for 3 sites. Exch 2003 OWA works great on SSL, Sharepoint works great too, but a third site generates this error. "This site contains both secure & nonsecure items". I can get past it by clicking ok, but I'd like to make it stop b...more >>

My internet isnt prompting me to which folder I should save downloaded files, it just sends em to the temp folder. How can I fix this so that it prompts me again....more >>

Hi, I'm facing a problem that I cannot download/view a .ini file in IIS6, even if I create a new web service extension to allow it the same 404 error is shown, and this is blocking an integration routine I had in IIS5. I read something about a flag in the server extension entry that disables m...more >>

I have a .Net web application compiled on my PC using the Framework version 1.0. Then install it to a Windows Server 2003 server, IIS 6, with Framework version 1.1. Then I have these two errors when trying to make database (Oracle) connection: 1-Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundExcep...more >>

I am getting error message that says Error Loading winupd.dll and Error Loading wincore.dll I was having problems with crap that downloaded itself onto my PC in the Windows\SYSTEM or Windows\SYSTEM32 folders and I may have deleted something essential. Now that I have loaded a...more >>

My asp pages aren't working using Windows 2003. I am sure it is a security configuration, although I am unable to find anything to unlock it. I am using frontpage 2003 and using the "database wizard" to make the database. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks ...more >>

Hi, We have an AD forest that has multiple domains. If I setup an IIS web server and uses Integrated Windows Authentication for a web application in one domain (DomainA). When user in another domain (DomainB) tried to access the web application, what will happen? Thanks in advance, Ale...more >>

Hi, A friend of mine is having problems setting up ssl on his server and I am hoping someone can help. He has a win 2000 server with iis and ca installed. He is not using Active Directory. He has created and tested is certificate and the server is sending out that certificate. The p...more >>

Please some1 help, im going crazy,thing is something has happened 2 my com. & its taken another page 4 my homepage when i connect using internet explorer, no matter how many times i change it, seconds l8r its back again & im even thinking ov throwing it out as its not a very nice homepage ...more >>

Please some1 help, im going crazy,thing is something has happened 2 my com. & its taken another page 4 my homepage, no matter how many times i change it, seconds l8r its back again & im even thinking ov throwing it out as its not a very nice homepage & this is a family house, please some1 ...more >>

hi i have a LAN and a WEB App in a separated sub-nets my question is : where should i put SQL Server ? 1) in the LAN sub-net ? 2) in the WEB sub-net ? 3) in another sub-net ? what type of connection do i need ? could i use IPSec ? thanks ...more >>

hello, this is a message that is related with another one posted by Mike Tindall in 17 march. The link to that post is: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=es&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=c1b39d90b59dc863&seekm=uXesvpUDEHA.3784%40TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl&frame=off The fact is that i got the same errors tha...more >>

When i try to use a password and user name on any website it tells me that they are incorrect and i know that they are correct. What have I done. This is the same message no matter where I go. I can used the stored passwords or type it in and it does not matter . What is the problem and ho...more >>

I have iis server running windows 2000 server and have several domains. I noticed that users of other domains on my server can log onto protected domains. Although a user can not log onto another site using frontpage. Example User from domain 1 can log onto a non anonymous site at domai...more >>

Does anyone know how I could fix this alt="Your browser understands the <APPLET> tag but isn't running the applet, for some reason." Your browser is ignoring the <APPLET> tag. ...more >>

I have several ASP pages that because of network layout will not operate as iusr_computername for anonymous access. I am trying to read files from a unix box that requires domain user access only. The only way I have been able to get them to work is by changing the "Anonymous Access" user to b...more >>

Is it possible through IIS administration to disallow web editors from uploading specifically .exe files to content directories? ...more >>

hi need some advise how to get rid of these unwantet shortcuts even when i delete all these garbage sex sites they come back every time i access the internet again thanks...more >>

Hi there, I've got a W2K development server with SSL certificates installed on it. These certificates have been created internally by previous developer. I would need to do development work on this server and make changes to a secured web site which is hosted on this server. The problem that I'm...more >>

I have a Win. 2000 Server, SP4. It was working fine with ASP pages before and it is less than a week it started having problems. A new backup has been put on that which i do not control that. Surprisingly, it works for html files but not for ASP pages. It is a long time it has not happened to it and...more >>

Hi All, I have a very urgent query.I have a server on which we have exchnage2000 installed along with the proxy server and IIS.All the workstations connect to the web thru the proxy server for the last one year and all seems to be stable. This morning when i came in i saw that no one ca...more >>

Our company webserver is running on Windows Server 2003 with connection to the ISP through a Linux box. Users go out onto the Internet through this server also. Recently management has observed that a lot of network bandwidth is expended on web surfing by users during office hours and ther...more >>

We need to create and test a SSL (https) link via our Win32 application to a web server. I need to generate a development certificate. I heard you can do this for testing purpose. Can anyone help me out. Thanks Ralph Krausse www.consiliumsoft.com Use the START button? Then you need CSFastRu...more >>

I have setup other servers in the past and have always renamed cmd.exe to something only I know. I am trying to do this on server 2003 and the file is not being changed. Is this a bad thing to do? How do I change it and keep it changed? Mike...more >>

We're looking to improve security on our webserver by checking each website directory perdically for files that have not been digitally signed by us The decission to do this has come from someone above me but I need to go back with the following How can you digitally signs files A website can p...more >>

I am missing "Web Anonymous Users" group in Windows 2003, that we used to had in Windows 2000 with IISLockdown. We need different anonymous users for different sites. Sites are running Asp and Asp.Net code. How can we create something comparable in Windows 2003? ...more >>

I know you can manually block ip addresses in IIS, but I'm looking to block (and un-block) ip addresses programmatically. Are the restricted IP's in IIS stored somewhere where I can get to em? thx ...more >>

Hello, Apologies if this has already been flagged up here (I've been out of the loop for a few weeks) but I just found this KB article when going through my inbox. FIX: You cannot suppress the default FTP banner for the FTP service http://support.microsoft.com/?id=826270 I know that obsc...more >>

Is this really from Microsoft? Thanks Microsoft All Products | Support | Search | Microsoft.com Guide Microsoft Home MS Partner this is the latest version of security update, the "May 2004, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities ...more >>

After some unspecified tweaking by internal staff we can no longer browse to our WindowsSharepointServices site(s) unde IIS 6.0 without including the 'default.aspx' in the address of the browser. Instead, we get the File Download warning saying this is an unknown file type and some files ...more >>

How do I stop myself getting unwanted messages or how do I remove MSN Messenger...more >>

All, I recently updated the certificate on my web server with a new certificate from verisign as my old one for the site had expired. When I set out to do this, I also noticed the issue with the versign certificate having expired. I replaced both. Then rebooted the server. It worked fine - I w...more >>

I have a question regarding security and file access on a web server Basically, my company maintains a web application that creates .pdf files with sensitive personal data. To use this application and create these pdfs, the user must be logged on, via a SQL Server username/password combination. ...more >>

We have set up our web server to use SSL and have installed the certificate. We set IIS to require SSL and use port 443. If we connect to the website using standard HTTP we get the expected message that the site requires us to use SSL. When connecting with Internet Explorer with HTTPS to t...more >>

1) are failed login attempts logged in the IIS log or only the event viewer system log? I looked at my IIS log and could not find an entry for a failed login attempt that I know occured. I did find it in the system log of the event viewer. I am running Outlook Web Access and I want to keep ...more >>

I have a website using FrontPage Server Extensions 2002, on a Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0, and just set up IISADMPWD. When accesing the website with my local test account I can gain access but when I change the account to 'change password at next logon' I receive an error, "HTTP Error 403 - For...more >>

OK, this is my first post on this issue. I have a windows 2000 server running IIS. The situation is that when I create a simple FTP site with several sub folders that I only want selected users to have access to I cannot authenticate to them when I use a password. The server is a domain...more >>

When attampting to renew the SSL certificate we get the error "internal error occurred". Technet PSS 311861 sugests registry edit but the key they refer to does not exist (I also could not find this key in other servers) Any idea?...more >>

Hi, I am writing a small ssl/tls client, the SSL/TLS negotiation and record processing is basically my own implementation. It does communicate with OpenSSL/apache without any problem using all possible ciphers. However it fails to connect to the IIS. The IIS just drops a connection aft...more >>

http://localhost works if I put a html page called index.htm in wwwroot but it dosn't execute iisstart.asp or anyother asp page in it.I know there is a security permission with that but I don't know how to fix it. Any help would be appriciated. ...more >>

I have a win2k Advanced server with VS.NET and IIS 5.0. I use the same system to host my domain(s) and develop web applications. Until now, I was hosting one domain without adding any host header name. But now I need to host multiple domains on the same server as well as use it to develop my a...more >>

I receive a syntax error everytime i try to get on the internet, and also when i try to type in a web address. Can any1 help?...more >>